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Author Boyer, Paul

Title By the Bomb's Early Light : American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (464 pages)
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Party I. First Reactions; Part II. Overture: The World Government Movement; Part III. The Atomic Scientists: From Bomb-Makers to Poltical Sages; Part IV. Anodyne to Terror: Fantasies of a Techno Atomic Utopia; Part V. The Social Implications of Atomic Energy: Prophecies and Prescriptions; Part VI. The Crisis of Morals and Values; Part VII. Culture and Consciousness in the Early Atomic Era; Part VIII. The End of the Beginning: Settling in for the Long Haul; Epilogue: From the H-Bomb to Star Wars: The Continuing Cycles of Activism and Apathy
Notes Print version record
Subject Atomic bomb -- Moral and ethical aspects
Atomic bomb.
nuclear bombs.
Atomic bomb
Atomic bomb -- Moral and ethical aspects
Civilization
Kernwaffe
Rüstungspolitik
SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139945
Subject United States
USA
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780807875704
0807875708